Jane Burton

Creative director at Tate, blogging on art and visual culture

Ever wondered what a JMW Turner seascape painting might taste like? Fishy, if you ask chef Rachel Khoo. Or how a Frances Bacon triptych might sound - dark and moodily rockin', if you ask the band Everything Everything. This might sound like some strange experiment in synaesthesia; in fact, its for a video series I've been making to mark the launch of the new Tate Britain...

Kia Makarechi

Senior Editor for Mobile and Innovations, The Huffington Post

"Don't even listen to me. Because the truth is inside of you and it always has been."

Carla Escoda

Former dancer, research scientist & investment banker turned ballet teacher and arts blogger

Few programs explore the power of ballet to depict the human condition and the inhuman condition as beguilingly as Pacific Northwest Ballet's current offering of three modern classics by Jiří Kylián, brilliantly paired with Emergence, Crystal Pite's spine-chilling parable of a sci-fi insect kingdom.

Mahasti Afshar

Reporter

The Shiraz-Persepolis Festival of Arts was an international festival held in Iran every summer for eleven years, 1967-1977. It was an inspired and feverish exploration, experimentation and creative conversation between Iran and the outside world that unfolded primarily through music, drama, dance and film.

Frank Browning

Paris writer and former NPR correspondent

Hotels, etymologically speaking, are a French invention, sheltering structures whose function was to provide care and nurture--as in the famous and endangered Hotel Dieu in Paris beside the Seine.

Edward Goldman

Art Critic, KCRW 89.9 FM

If you were standing in front of this sculpture in a museum, you wouldn't dare touch it. But here, on the terrace, people comfortably rest their behinds on this great work of art, which is probably exactly how Rauschenberg wanted it to be.

Danny Groner

Manager, Shutterstock

Kinky Boots remains one of the most popular and talked about musical on Broadway. One of the standout performers is Annaleigh Ashford, who brings both humor and optimism to the show. Here, Ashford explains what sets this show apart.

Mark Rubinstein

Author, 'Love Gone Mad' www.lovegonemadthebook.com

"Writing a stage play and a screenplay have very little to do with each other. A stage play is just dialogue. One has to be able to communicate the play through disputation. A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia."

George Heymont

San Francisco-based arts critic

Basing his production on the concept that Gilbert & Sullivan's popular operetta was not at all about Japan, but about Victorian England's fascination with Japanoiserie, Renshaw staged The Mikado in a turn-of-the-century London department store.

Adria Rolnik

Web Coordinator and Archivist, Antony Tudor Ballet Trust

Through From the Horse's Mouth "talk/dance" format, Anna Sokolow Way will offer a firsthand look at the personal experiences of dancers, actors, critics and musicians who worked with Anna over the course of her 60-year career in dance.

John Branch

New York–based arts writer

One evening in early November, the BAM Harvey Theater in New York City resounded to an electric guitar, a few American pop-rock songs including Bowie's 'Changes,' and the splat of paint-filled balloons hurled against the walls of the set.

Brian DAmbrosio

Journalist, Marketing and Media Consultant

Knight, of Stevensville, Montana, is a contemporary extension of that lineage, a skilled artisan who comprehends that art is not just beauty or novelty, but that art is effectiveness. A discussion with Knight is a lesson in intricacy

Tim McHenry

Director of public programs and performance at the Rubin Museum of Art

As this session was about Jung, it was perhaps inevitable that the unconscious would make an appearance by the end of the evening. The image of the Red Book certainly brought Shanley to reveal a great deal more about himself than might be gleaned in a regular interview.

Priyanka Kumar

Filmmaker, Author

Over a decade ago, as a graduate student at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-TV, I was living a double life. By day, I attended my screenwriting classes, took notes, and asked thoughtful questions; by night, I worked on a literary novel.

Ming Thein

Commercial photographer, writer and photographic instructor

Here's a provocative question: is this image art? Why? Why not? Have a think about this carefully, for a moment. Today I'm going to crack open the lid of one of the biggest cans of worms in the whole of photography, peer inside, give you my 1.53 cents* and try not to fall inside.

Don Bacigalupi

President, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

400 artist studios in 40 cities. That's the current count of where Chad Alligood, Crystal Bridges' assistant curator for special projects, and I have traveled this summer and fall, crossing thousands of miles of this amazing country.

Kayley Kravitz

Boston blogger & Britpop girl

It's hard to define the overarching sound of '90s Britpop. Bands like Oasis produced straight-up "lad" rock while art school graduates Pulp explored more experimental roads. In the midst of the UK's '90s indie guitar pop boom came Gene, a London-based four piece.